question about serial numbers

[Payne Freret]

Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU> wrote:

>   A serial number is a signed integer.  Please see
>   RFC 1982 for details.

Any chance you meant "unsigned integer" rather than "signed integer"?

RFC1982: "Serial numbers are formed from non-negative integers from a
finite subset of the range of all integer values."

RFC1035: "SERIAL   The unsigned 32-bit version number of the original
copy of the zone."

Payne Freret